Amazon Web Services (AWS) 101

Name: Amazon Web Services (AWS) 101
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Crashcourse of becoming a cloud solution architect. Demo with the exact tools to be used in industry.

Created byJeffrey LEE

Last updated 9/2020

English

What you'll learn

Get a webpage hosted on AWS in less then 10 minutes
Host a webpage without any cost on AWS using free tier services
Get started with their career as a cloud architect
Show case their knowledge by building production level architecture

Course content

9 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 43m total length

Introduction3:00
Why do we need Cloud Services? Explaining what are cloud services and why there is a demand.
Cloud Service Provider2:55
Explaining what are the differences between cloud service providers. Taking AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as examples.
AWS account4:06
Creating your first AWS account
Securing your AWS account5:09
Securing your AWS account with Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

How it works?5:26
Explore how Amazon S3, the simple storage service, enables hosting a website by storing files, while you learn the web workflow—from DNS resolution to browser delivery.
Uploading files to S35:09
Setting permissions to files on S34:34
Open the permissions tab, disable block public access at the bucket level, and adjust object permissions to allow public access, then confirm the changes to host a public page.
Visiting your first personal profile3:45

Introduction0:39
Overview of section1:12
Deploying a local server5:20
Deploy a local web server on your computer with Python's simple http server, expose it on port 8000, and view listings from the terminal to learn how servers work.
Creating the first EC2 instance10:13
Accessing EC2 instance5:48
Sending files to EC2 instance4:37
Copy your first web page and profile image from your local computer to the EC2 instance using Ekpe, specifying the Ubuntu username, private key, IP address, and target folder.
Deploying server in EC2 instance5:59
Deploy a web server on an EC2 instance by installing Python, running a simple http server on port 8000, and exposing it publicly after updating apt.
Opening the port through security group8:00
Learn to open and secure a web server with a security group by configuring inbound and outbound rules, opening port 8000 and port 22, and restricting access to your IP.

Introduction2:42
Explore AWS Lambda as a serverless compute service that runs code on demand, avoiding idle costs, and learn to deploy a simple API with function examples.
Deploying first lambda function5:54
Deploy a simple hello world api using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, exposing a public http endpoint in under five minutes and learning about triggers.
Reading parameters from URL and performing simple operations7:39
Pass query parameters from url to a Lambda API, read name and numbers from the event, and return json object with sum, subtract, multiply, and divide after parsing to numbers.
Pricing of Lambda7:18
Explore Lambda pricing, split into requests and duration, with a 1 million free requests tier and per-GB-second compute. See how memory, regional data transfer, and usage shape costs.

Requirements

Be able to understand simple terminal commands, such as "cd", "ls", for handling web files

Description

This course is designed for complete beginners who are trying to level up their skillsets from writing code to deploying production-level architecture on AWS. It a crashcourse driven by examples to demonstrate WHAT tools to use and HOW to become a system architect. We will begin with creating your personal profile hosted in AWS Simple Storage System(S3), and then into deploying complex, dynamic backend server with AWS Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) and server-less architecture AWS Lambda. It is a stepping-stone for entering another level of your career as a cloud solution architect.

I am going to demo the following AWS services with examples,

- S3

- Cloudfront

- Route53

- EC2

- Lambda

- and more ...

Although this course uses AWS services as teaching and demoing materials, the concepts are transferrable to other cloud services such as Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and Microsoft Azure. For example, deploying dynamic backend service with AWS Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) is similar to deploying into "Compute Engine" in GCP and "Virtual Machines" in Azure. This course is an entry point to the cloud solution architect world no matter which cloud platform you will be facing in your future career.

After the course, I am also happy to assist you and guide you through the path of becoming a system architect. It is the important step to bring you to the next level of your career. See you soon!

Who this course is for:

Developer
Software Engineer
Cloud Architect
Beginner web developer
Python developer
Data Scientists
Entrepreneurs
Startups

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 101

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 15min

S3 - Simple Storage Service4 lectures • 19min

Cloudfront - Content Delivery Network1 lecture • 7min

Route 53 - DNS1 lecture • 17min

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud8 lectures • 42min

EIP - Elastic IP2 lectures • 18min

Lambda - Serverless Compute4 lectures • 24min

Billing1 lecture • 8min

Conclusion2 lectures • 14min

Requirements

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